Sanctions not reportedmost recent record, 2024 · as reported
Harris has 2 sustained major discipline records from NJ Department Of Human Services, spanning 2021 to 2024. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: Incompetency/Inefficiency; Standard Operating Procedures of Use of Force Policy-Core Principal#2; Critical decision-making and tactical deployment techniques include tactical communication and positioning. Use of Force Policy-Core Principal#2; De-escalation, the action of communicating verbally or non-verbally to reduce, stabilize or eliminate the immediacy of a threat. De-escalation may also be used to creat the time needed to allow the situation to resolve itself or to position additional resources to resolve the situation with the least amount of force necessary.
Discipline timeline, 2021 to 2024
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2 records, 2021 to 2024
Major discipline records reported for John Harris, by year
According to the NJ Department of Human Services, Officer John Harris was disciplined in 2024 in connection with a use-of-force incident, and the record lists 5 days of suspension. On November 28, 2023, Harris assisted a fellow officer with a client who attempted to elope from a State health care facility. The client's behavior progressed from passive resistor to active resistor to active assailant and spat on Harris and another officer. Harris used physical force to stop the assault on the officers.
Standard Operating Procedures of Use of Force Policy-Core Principal#2
Critical decision-making and tactical deployment techniques include tactical communication and positioning. Use of Force Policy-Core Principal#2
De-escalation, the action of communicating verbally or non-verbally to reduce, stabilize or eliminate the immediacy of a threat. De-escalation may also be used to creat the time needed to allow the situation to resolve itself or to position additional resources to resolve the situation with the least amount of force necessary.
Separated while IA pending
not reported
Synopsis as reported by the agency
On November 28, 2023 Officer John Harris assisted a fellow officer with a client who attempted to elope from a State Health Care Facility. Upon contact the client's behavior progressed from a Passive Ressitor, to an Active Resistor, and ultimately became to an Active Assailant. The client spat on Officer Harris and another Officer on scene. At which time, Officer Harris used physical force to cease the assault upon law enforcement officers.
Officer John Harris was suspended for 15 days by the NJ Department of Human Services in 2021 after he mishandled a vehicle pursuit. The sustained charge in this record was incompetency or inefficiency, and no additional detail was reported.
Officer Harris was suspended for 15 days for mishandling a vehicle pursuit.
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Other officers at New Jersey Department Of Human Services
5 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.
The amount is as reported by the New Jersey Department of the Treasury in its YourMoney pension data, as of March 31, 2026. It is the pension-basis figure and may not include overtime, accrued leave, stipends, or other pay. The link between this officer and this pension record is a records-based match at high confidence (exact name and exact employing agency), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of John Harris's major discipline record?
Harris has 2 sustained major discipline records from NJ Department Of Human Services, spanning 2021 to 2024. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: Incompetency/Inefficiency; Standard Operating Procedures of Use of Force Policy-Core Principal#2; Critical decision-making and tactical deployment techniques include tactical communication and positioning. Use of Force Policy-Core Principal#2; De-escalation, the action of communicating verbally or non-verbally to reduce, stabilize or eliminate the immediacy of a threat. De-escalation may also be used to creat the time needed to allow the situation to resolve itself or to position additional resources to resolve the situation with the least amount of force necessary.
What is John Harris's major discipline record at New Jersey Department Of Human Services?
John Harris has 2 major discipline records at New Jersey Department Of Human Services in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2021, 2024. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is John Harris's pension on record?
John Harris's reported monthly pension allowance is $5,396.76, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. John Harris has 25 years, 11 months of reported service.
How large is New Jersey Department Of Human Services, the department John Harris worked for?
New Jersey Department Of Human Services reported 72 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about John Harris individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1413. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2747. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[3]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1413. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. The timeline counts rows 1413, 2747. ↩
[4]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 371925 (member 44367520), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[5]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8384. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩